Include 5300 left out families of DPs in package list: MRWS

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Daily Excelsior
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Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Dec 27: The Muzaffarabad (PoK) Refugees Welfare Society (MRWS) from Punjab has urged upon the Central and the J&K Governments to include 5300 left of families of displaced persons (DPs) from PoK in the package list as announced by the Prime Minister.
In a press statement here the Punjab Society of refugees also lauded the statement of Dy Chief Minister Dr Nirmal Singh on the issuance of identity cards to the West Pakistan Refugees as they are Indians, not Burmees and Bangladeshis, who are residing in different parts of Jammu and Kashmir as well as in the country. These refugees are residing in Jammu and Kashmir during the past 67 years but as per the law of the State they cannot purchase the land, property and cannot even apply for the Government jobs’.
They pointed out that there are some other families who met with the same fate in 1947 and lost most of their nears and dears and all their movable and immovable properties in Pakistan Occupied Jammu & Kashmir. On reaching Jammu, they were not accommodated in Jammu rather scattered in different states. Struggling for respectable settlement of their movable and immovable properties they have lost their two generations.
There are 5300 families as per the record submitted by Home Ministry of J&K State to the Parliamentary Committee for reviewing the compensation to be given to all the DPs of POJK-1947. Where are the recommendations of JPC-Report 183 of Rajya Sabha ? If the West Pak refugees are not Burmees or Pakistanis then how the Permanent residents of Muzaffarabad and other districts of PoJK till 1947 could be treated as outsiders for J&K.
The latest decision of exclusion of 5300 families from the Prime Minister Financial Package of Rs 2000 crore, if not corrected, shall definitely create a feeling of dishonesty on the part of the Govt as the authorities know the fact that total number of claimants of PoJK DPs of 1947 are 31687 and not 26387.
They appealed to the Deputy Chief Minister to become the voice of these isolated families and get this mistake corrected to provide justice to 5300 families.

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